Re: [tlug] Linux Format magazine

["Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon" <ronfaxon@example.com>]

Josh Glover wrote:

>But when the paragraph went through a few more revisions, the
>exclamation mark had outlived its usefulness. Thanks for putting it
>down. ;)
>
>However, since you changed only one character, it *really* would have
>been a great application for a patch. c.f.
>  
>

Yeah - I was actually feeling a little nervous with each full posting of 
the text I made, but after all the years of trouble I've had at 1) a PR 
agency, 2) a publishing/printing company, 3) a foundation, and 4) 
various freelance jobs - all places where there were numerous issues of 
old versions of text in progress being used by mistake, and also new 
versions being lost or overwritten by old ones - I got into the habit of 
making sure that a full version of a new edit is e-mailed (when the text 
level isn't excessive that is), which is something to fall back on when 
mistakes happen elsewhere. This redundancy has saved the day more than a 
few times. Also, if the edit itself is of use as a whole, it saves the 
error-prone process of picking through an old document and inserting 
changes - not applicable in this case I realize, but still, with only a 
few hundred words of plain text, it's not all that many KB's.....

All of that said, I'll not make a habit of doing that on this list!

Lyle